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Friday, 09 September 2011

A minute of 'silence'

We just had the most undignified moment of silence in history. An announcer came on and said we were going to have a minute of silence in honour of friends, family and colleagues who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks in the US 10 years ago.

She then proceeded to leave the microphone on for the entire minute, during which we got to listen to her chair squeaking and her mobile phone going off.

My colleague and I sat here with our hands over our mouths trying desperately not to laugh. Which would have been rude…